AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...

Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners — the best open source software for business — and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop.

In the intricate landscape of software development, the question of whether open source software provides superior security compared to proprietary alternatives has sparked a longstanding debate. The ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Apr 24, 2015, 09:27am EDT Apr 24, 2015, 05:57pm EDT This ...

There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology — software that is open to change and free to adopt — has gone from the exception to ...

"The genie is out of the bottle on open source. There’s no going back to the proprietary model." —Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM CTO and co-inventor of MQTT. By now, you’ve likely seen a number of reports ...

Cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic. More and more organizations are getting hit by ransomware attacks, critical open software vulnerabilities are making news, and we’re seeing industries and ...

One of the most persistent myths surrounding Linux and other open source software is that there’s no easy way to get good support. Just this week, for instance, we saw this claim used in Microsoft’s ...